Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Journal of Contemporary Neurology

The Paradox of Sleep; The Story of Dreaming Michel Jouvet, translated byLaurence Garey 1999, The MIT PressCambridge, Massachusetts Michel Jouvet, perhaps the world’sleading researcher on sleep anddream research, is considered respon-sible for the discovery of paradoxicalsleep— a “new” third state of thebrain as different from normal sleepas sleep is from waking. In The Para- dox of Sleep, Jouvet takes the reader ona scientific and sociological tour of thehistory of sleep and dream research,concluding with his own ideas on thefunction of dreaming.

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